AUSTRALIAN. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2093, 5 December 1885, Page 2

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S\dvkv, December .S. TifK Union Company's .st<Miner Mararoa nude ;i trial trip in tin* harbour tod ly, in order to test her boilers, etc. Tlic recult was most satisfactory. The debate on the vote of w.uitof confidence, introduced by Sii John Robertson as an ainendinet to the Address-in-lleply, came to a close in the Legislative As.seml>ly last night, A division was taken, when the amendment was rejected b^ a majority of two only, the Uo\eminent seeming .IS \otes against .*>(!, in an unusually I.iri^e House, with only two absentee^. In the Le^islati\ c Assembly, today, the Piemier, Mi Ihbbs, niad»a M^inistei'ial .Statement, Jle announced the intention of the CJo\ eminent not to resign, and promised to bring down the Financial Statement before the Christmas recess.

iMj.uiouKNi:, December .'5. The Federal Rnabling Jiill was finally passed by the Legislative Council last nijjlit. The Hon. W. Pearson oilers a rew.irdof £1000 for the disemery of tin? poison who tainjiered with his iMcehorso Conimotion, which, he states, was wilfully injured on the 3rd of October last.

[Rixciu-d l>c. 4 tli, 1 15 p m ] Mkujouum:, Friday. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company hold their usual weekly sale yosterd.iy aftornooii. An important cat.ilogue, consisting of 5,000 hales, was submitted to competition. The bidding was .spirited throughout, the market being aothe at Lite rates, (ireasy merino wools sold up to Is, scoured wools to los : |d, and washed to 13s j(I.j (I.